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August Production Estimates And April To June Quarterly Employment Statistics
Given the uncertainties about the evolution of the coronavirus epidemic and the response of the economy to it and to the measures taken to combat it, it is ...
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Austerity And A Permanent Income Shock
This brief distinguishes between a policy of austerity and the fact of a permanent decline in per capita income, arguing that South Africa should adapt to a ...
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Authoritarianism in Zambia
On the night of the 11th of April 2017 the Zambian Police broke down the gate of Hakainde Hichilema’s compound and began their quest to arrest the country’s ...
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Away from colonialism or not? The Constitutional Court is to decide an important UNISA v Afriforum case on language policy at University level in terms of s 29(2) of the Constitution
This brief explores the review case currently in the Constitutional Court on language policy at the University of South Africa. This case touches on issues of ...
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Barnard Case - a Missed Opportunity
The recent judgment of the Constitutional Court (CC) in the matter of South African Police Service v Solidarity obo Barnard [2014] ZACC 23 is noteworthy, not ...
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BETWEEN DOUBT AND CERTAINTY: Reflections on the state of our public discourse
For some time now our public discourse has been dominated by public intellectuals and other commentators whose opinions are characterised by a shrill, ...
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Beyond CR17 - Problems With The Executive Members’ Ethics Act And The Executive Ethics Code
This is the last in a three-brief series. The first brief dealt with the relationship between donations towards campaigns within political parties and the ...
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Brazil's Travails, And Ours
Charles Simkins looks at Brazil and the dire straits the country finds itself in, drawing instructive comparisons between the political and economic situations ...
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BRICS: THE NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK (NDB) AND THE CONTINGENT RESERVE ARRANGEMENT (CRA)
On 15 July, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa signed agreements to establish the New Development Bank and the Contingency Reserve Arrangement. The ...
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Budget Challenges I: The Economic Environment
This is the first of three briefs on the challenges to be faced in the presentation of the 2019 Budget on 20 February. It deals with the global and local ...
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